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| 32 | 162 | Plenius, View more quotes about close">close to me now, half bent over in the brush, grasped his spear in two hands, for the forward thrust. |
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| 32 | 159 | I considered the likely path of the fugitive, given the lay of the land, the simplest geodesics he might traverse, giving him the least resistance to flight. |
| 32 | 160 | I could hear him splashing through some shallow water now, several yards away. |
| 32 | 161 | I signaled to Plenius that his fellows might take up positions in the brush, on either side of the likely path of the runner. |
| 32 | 162 | Plenius, close to me now, half bent over in the brush, grasped his spear in two hands, for the forward thrust. |
| 32 | 163 | Given the swiftness of the runner and the strength of Plenius, who was a large, strong man, and who had come up through the ranks as a spearman, that thrust, compounding the forces involved, would presumably carry both the head and upper part of the shaft through the runner's body. |
| 32 | 164 | I put my hand on the spear and pushed it down. |
| 32 | 165 | "Let him pass," I said. |